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Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread
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@lemmy.mlHey guys, so it seems that Linkwarden isn't as good as I was hoping, since some websites will throw up a cookie popup or some other screen that basically prevents the capture.
Firefox Screenshot seems to work well, but it saves a PNG, which isn't really text searchable.
FF's "save page as..." feature seems to break things when viewing them back.
Save to PDF is another option, and that seems to be decent.
I'm not looking to copy entire websites, but I like to save web pages for later reference (i.e. instructions/specs).
I use Synology Note Station, but they don't have a web clipper for Firefox...
I'm fine with using a folder structure to store files, despite not being totally ideal when compared to Linkwarden.
Does anyone have any other suggestions that perhaps I've missed? Nothing too complicated... ideally, as simple as a button click would be great.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2024/
Read the Q2 2024 Drive Stats Report, with the latest on annualized failure rates and a look into measuring drive consistency over time.
YouTube is cracking down Adblocker and they may never work in a year or so.
I don't watch YouTube that much and most of the time I watch the same thing. So I am thinking of mirroring the videos I watch to other platforms. But I don't know which. I was just thinking of ok.ru. I don't know if they respond to DMCA requests.
Did anyone do something similar?
Running GParted gives me an error that says
fsyncing/closing dev/sdb: input/output error
Using Gnome Disk Utility under the assessment section it says
Disk is OK, one bad sector
Clicking to format it to EXT4 I'm getting a message that says
Error formatting volume
Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device 'dev/SDB' (udisks-error-quark, 0)
Running sudo smartctl -a /dev/SDB I get a few messages that all say
... SCSI error badly formed scsi parameters
In terms of the physical side I've swapped out the SATA data and power cable with the same results.
Any suggestions?
Amazon has a decent return policy so I'm not incredibly concerned but if I can avoid that hassle it would nice.
a few days ago i saw a post on the reddit datahoarder community asking how to backup keys and other small files for a long time.
it reminded me of a script i made some time ago to save my otp secrets in case of loss of device or a reenactment of the raivo otp incident,
so i decided to make it public on github, hope someone here finds it useful
the density is not great, about 1kB per A4 page, but it can recover from losing up to half of the printed surface and, if stored properly, paper should last very long
Basically title!
I want to run it through my NAS to free up some space.
Tha ks in advance.
I read something about once-reliable sites that would tell you the best [tech thing] now not giving legit reviews, being paid to say good things about certain companies, and I do not remember where I read that or which sites, so I figured I'd bypass the issue and ask people here. I'm pretty new to anything near the level of complexity and technical details that I see on datahoarder communities. I know about the 321 backup rule and that's it. This is me trying to find something to hold copy 3 of my data.
i want to buy a few hard drives for backups.
What is the most reliable option for longetivity? i was looking at the wd ae, which they claim is fit for this purpose, but knowing nothing about hard drives, I wouldnt know if it was a marketing claim..
They're all available on this Tumblr page. I'd appreciate it a lot.
Edit: I've fixed the Mediafire links: